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Three lawyers who acted for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been given jail of up to five-and-a-half years on charges of taking part in an "extremist organisation".

Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were arrested in October 2023 as Russian authorities intensified pressure on the jailed Kremlin critic, who died suddenly last February in an Arctic prison colony.
They were put on trial behind closed doors in Petushki, a town east of Moscow, and accused of "using their status" to relay messages between Navalny and his colleagues.

Navalny had condemned the case as just like Soviet times, and an indication of "the state of rule of law in Russia".
Igor Sergunin was the only one of the three to it the charge, according to independent reports, and was given a lighter sentence of three-and-a-half years.
Alexei Liptser was jailed for five years in a penal colony and Vadim Kobzev was given five-and-a-half years.
Kobzev's own lawyer, Andrei Grivtsov, said the evidence against them amounted to illegal invasion of privacy.
"They're not allowed to eavesdrop on meetings between a lawyer and a client in a penal colony in principle - there's a direct legislative ban," he told BBC Russian.
Alexei Liptser's lawyer, Andrei Orlov, told reporters that Friday's court decision was very sad: "But we are not going to stop just yet. We are going to keep moving."

The three lawyers were put on trial close to the penal colony in Pokrov, where Navalny was initially sent when he returned to Russia in January 2021, having survived a nerve agent attack that he blamed on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

The Kremlin denied the allegation and Navalny remained in Russian penal colonies until his death, north of the Arctic Circle and 1,900km (1,200 miles) north-east of Moscow.
His widow, Yulia Navalnaya, blamed Putin for his death, which authorities put down to "sudden death syndrome"

Several months after Navalny was detained in 2021, Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation and his regional offices were banned by a Moscow court, which classified them as "extremist".
Navalny, who was already in jail on other charges, was then convicted of founding and funding an extremist organisation too.

The head of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, Ivan Zhdanov, pointed out that that the three lawyers were sentenced on 17 January - the same day Navalny was arrested and jailed on his return to Russia from : "Tell me this is a coincidence."
Amnesty International said that by targeting lawyers "for merely doing their job, the Russian authorities are dismantling what remains of the right to legal defence".

According to investigators, the three men had acted as of Navalny's "extremist community", meeting the opposition leader and exchanging information with him.

Yulia Navalnaya said the three men were "political prisoners and should be freed immediately".
Another of Navalny's lawyers, Olga Mikhailova, who has left Russia, said the sentences were "brutal and absurd" and that the men had been punished for honestly carrying out "their duties, their professional and moral position".
Ms Mikhailova, whose offices were raided in 2023, says she herself has also been accused of extremism in absentia. Another Navalny lawyer, Aleksandr Fedulov, also fled Russia after their three colleagues were detained.

After their arrest, Navalny appeared at a court hearing in October 2023 from a maximum security penal colony east of Moscow and complained that he had been denied all legal representation."My lawyer is not here. All the other lawyers are not here. Nobody is allowed to visit me. I am isolated and cut off from any information," he told the hearing.

Two months later, he was moved to an even more remote penal colony named Polar Wolf, where he was held in a punishment cell and died aged 47. His widow rejected the cause of death provided by authorities as a lie.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3nnvq7kplo

This guy keeps going after oppositions! 😂
Bloody coward.

If they aren't dropping off from buildings, they get poisoned, or killed in prison or even arrested and locked up for years with no proper charges or fair trial. What does that tell you about Putin?

obedience4:


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3nnvq7kplo

Aaah PUTIN jus dey PUT IN more CELL MATES

Proud Dictator Putin. The Abacha of Europe.

He b tins

You allow the west to influence you against your country ….you collect

If truly they go against they law, they should be jail

Putin is minion demon

It can only take a major demon to challenge him

Those who Putin are their gods come and ass lick. God bless America, father's of democracy

This is the evil some people are ing. Killing the guy in prison was not enough, putuputu wants everyone that ed the guy to taste his wrath

Same Putin is some people role model but when Farotimi runs his mouth and got into trouble with his brother same morons shouting Tinubu is a dictator now let's hear what they will call their notorious Putin.

TOPCRUISE:
Proud Dictator Putin.

you now see that Putin is a man and am sure those lawyers may not make it out of prison alive just like the opposition leader died in prison

obedience4:


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3nnvq7kplo

Putin’s actions are raising serious eyebrows. Targeting lawyers for doing their job and calling them "extremists"? That’s desperation on full display. Jailing anyone connected to Navalny and silencing opposition highlights

This is not a good country to express ur independence.

Putin silencing anything opposition..

Mervingreat:
Same Putin is some people role model but when Farotimi runs his mouth and got into trouble with his brother same morons shouting Tinubu is a dictator now let's hear what they will call their notorious Putin.

Abeg o! Nothing concern Tinubu. It is an Obidient affair.

TOPCRUISE:
Proud Dictator Putin. The Abacha of Europe.

La Rus no follow for saner climes o

lawyers are representation they are not partakers of anything necessarily. why is putin problematic?

Botragelad:
This guy keeps going after oppositions! 😂
Bloody coward.

If they aren't dropping off from buildings, they get poisoned, or killed in prison or even arrested and locked up for years with no proper charges or fair trial. What does that tell you about Putin?

He didn't pretend to be practising democracy and then invade other countries, did he?

Botragelad:
This guy keeps going after oppositions! 😂
Bloody coward.

If they aren't dropping off from buildings, they get poisoned, or killed in prison or even arrested and locked up for years with no proper charges or fair trial. What does that tell you about Putin?

These sorts are not "Opposition", these Ones or anyone of their type who connives with the Enemies of his Country (for the sake of securing Political Power!), to wage War on his Country, are called TRAITORS and they deserve to be hanged.

Puti i sactually a nice guy and some Russians have even accused him of getting Soft because even people who were caught planting expl0s!ve Devices to bl00w up the Infrastructure of Russia, after being paid by their "useful Eed!ot" Enemy across the Border, are just sent to maximum of 15yrs in Prison, most get 7yrs.
Anyone that tries that in America, will get "Life without Parole", if not the Electric Chair.
Or try it in China and see if their Head will not role off their Shoulder.

All these Western Propaganda will not stop the Special Military Operation (Now a War, since NATO no longer hide their involvement and are just using Ukraine as their battering Ram) ... from achieving its stated aims.

Russia's Putin has outlived all those Presidents who sought his downfall, isn't that strange or is it a mere coincidence?
Another one will kiss the dust next Monday, January 20, 2025

Long Live Russia, Long Live Putin.

thesicilian:

He didn't pretend to be practising democracy

Yeah he's a dictator. Why should he? 🤷🏼

smallsmall:


These sorts are not "Opposition", these Ones or anyone of their type who connives with the Enemies of his Country (for the sake of securing Political Power!), to wage War on his Country, are called TRAITORS and they deserve to be hanged.

Puti i sactually a nice guy and some Russians have even accused him of getting Soft because even people who were caught planting expl0s!ve Devices to bl00w up the Infrastructure of Russia, after being paid by their "useful Eed!ot" Enemy across the Border, are just sent to maximum of 15yrs in Prison, most get 7yrs.
Anyone that tries that in America, will get "Life without Parole", if not the Electric Chair.
Or try it in China and see if their Head will not role off their Shoulder.

All these Western Propaganda will not stop the Special Military Operation (Now a War, since NATO no longer hide their involvement and are just using Ukraine as their battering Ram) ... from achieving its stated aims.

Russia's Putin has outlived all those Presidents who sought his downfall, isn't that strange or is it a mere coincidence?
Another one will kiss the dust next Monday, January 20, 2025

Long Live Russia, Long Live Putin.

Now crawl back to your hut!😂

Evil (Ras)PUTIN

This is sane clime where lawyers to opposition are imprisoned. Always funny when some idiots see Putin as there messiah. 🤣

Lets hope he doesn't poison them in prison.

Barzinime:
You allow the west to influence you against your country ….you collect

Most people posting here and abusing Putin, are just displaying their IGNORANCE.
They dont know a single thing about the Man who was jailed, they dont know the attrocities he has committed against his own Country while acting as Lawyer to the dead traitor (Navalny).
Once they saw the word "Lawyer" and Putin Jailed Lawyer", they start saying all sorts of Rubbish, instead of investigating what actually happened or read about the trial itself.
It is common sense, that there are always three sides to a story: Left Side, Right Side and The TRUTH.

A Lawyer can also be a Traitor to his Country and No Country will spare its own Traitors, because they are worse, even than the Country's Enemies.

obedience4:


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3nnvq7kplo

Jobless clown 🤡 how far are your beloved Ukronazis 🖕🇺🇦 faring in the Pokrovsk,Kurakove,etc regions of the Donbass front including Zaporozhye,etc ?oh I get it they're DENAZIFIED

Botragelad:

Yeah he's a dictator. Why should he? 🤷🏼

That's my point. He's true to his name. It's in the nature of a dictator to silence opposition. The true criminals are the ones who pretend to be democrats while causing wars in and destabilising other nations and secretly kidnapping and torturing dissenting voices.

abysirius:
This is sane clime where lawyers to opposition are imprisoned. Always funny when some idiots see Putin as there messiah. 🤣

The genetically deformed brain 🧠 DEAD idiot 🤡 is you

Putin's again